Mass plan for state care of feeble minded proposed
The Conference on Charities and Correction in Boston 1915 urges complete segregation and kindly care in state institutions for Massachusetts feeble minded. The group, conservatively estimated at 9000, is rapidly increasing and a report by C. C. Carstens is sent to Governor Eugene N. Foss for consideration.
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Massachusetts
Conference On Charities and Correction of
Boston
C. C. Carstens
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Eugene N. Foss
Carstens
State Board of Charity
Massachusetts Feeble minded cost estimate drives segregation plan
A conference argues for statewide segregation of feeble minded residents in Massachusetts. It cites a $64 775 current and future cost for three families and warns of social harms including crime. The report urges gradual public funding to 1925 and frames segregation as the only effective remedy to curb costs and decline.
Miss Seelye Weds Smith Professor in Northampton
Miss Henrietta Sheldon Seelye, daughter of Rev. Dr. L. Clark Seelye, President Emeritus of Smith College, married Professor William George Gray of Little Rock Arkansas, a history instructor at Smith College. The wedding took place at the bride’s home with Clifford Gray as best man and Miss Rose Hinkley as maid of honor.
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Northampton
Henrietta Sheldon Seelye
L. Clark Seelye
Smith College
William George Gray
Little Rock
Ark
Clifford Gray
Rose Hinkley
Diamond Heist Reported By Chicago Broker
Chicago police were told a diamond broker lost unset diamonds valued at $25 000 from his wallet while playing pool Tuesday at a downtown billiard hall. Samuel Scott reported the theft today.
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Chicago
Samuel Scott
Coffin Used as Ladder in Store Burglary
In New Haven on December 21 burglars used a coffin as a stepladder to enter the Benjamin Spector jewelry store on Congress avenue. The coffin was borrowed from an adjoining undertaker. They obtained cash and jewelry from the store.
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New Haven
Conn
Benjamin Spector
Congress Avenue
Minor Fined Under New Connecticut Drinking Law
In Putnam Connecticut George H Potter a 20 year old railroad worker was charged with buying two glasses of beer at the Chickering Hotel. He pleaded guilty and was fined five dollars as the first case under the new state law. A few hours later Potter was rearrested for buying a half pint of liquor for Louis Eno a blacklisted man under the Connecticut post law and fined fifteen dollars.
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Putnam, Conn
George H. Potter
Chickering Hotel
Potter
Louis Eno
Connecticut
Possums Invite Taft To North Carolina Hunt
J H Zembly of Winston Salem invites President Taft to a possum hunting trip in Forsyth county North Carolina urging him to escape capital life. Taft declines the invitation stating he cannot accept the offer.
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Washington
J. H. Zembly
Winston, Salem
N. C
Taft
North Carolina
White House
Mr. Zembly
Mr. Taft
Man Given Two To Three Years For Grand Larceny
John Morrison, real name John M. Phelan, was sentenced by Judge O Sullivan to two years six months to three years six months for grand larceny in the first degree. An Interborough Rapid Transit inspector, Stanley Scott, arrested him after finding 40 cents in his pocket on September 17.
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New York
John Morrison
Kimball
John M. Phelan
O'Sullivan
Court of General Sessions
Stanley Scott
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Stowaway Without Country A Puzzle
Samuel Goulden 18 of Thomas West Virginia is at Ellis Island awaiting the Board of Special Inquiry decision. Born in Russia to Russian parents, he was brought to Virginia at age five. He stowed away on the Hamburg American steamer Prinz Augusta Wilhelm on November 30, was found at Kingston and sent back to New York on the Prinz Sigismund. He has no support and allegedly no right to remain in the United States.
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New York
Samuel Goulden
Thomas
W. Va
Ellis Island
Board of Special Inquiry
Kingston
Jamaica
Russia
Virginia
Colon
Goulden
America
Bedridden Hear Sermon Through Home Telephones
In Harvey Illinois on December 21 Rev. David D. Vaughn of the First Methodist Church used improvised telephones to reach bedridden parishioners. He ran wires from the church to homes using trees as poles and spoke into a magnifying transmitter to deliver the sermon. He plans to extend the setup to let the sick hear choir rehearsals by the same method.
Fellow Employee Saves Life Of Man
Lynn December 21 Charles A Cate 30 a sub foreman in Williams and Clark shoe factory was saved from death by Fred Martin a fellow employee who seized Cate and held him when he became entangled in shafting Cate suffered torn clothing bruises and was taken to the hospital in a hysterical condition the incident left him badly bruised but alive.
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Lynn
Charles A. Cate
Williams & Clark
Fred Martin
Cate
Lord Downshire Suffers Crashing Waves in Atlantic Voyage
The British steamer Lord Downshire, chartered by Holland America, arrived four days late after a hurricane off Rotterdam. A giant combers tore the starboard bridge section and a ventilator, injuring Chief Officer Browning who clung to a rail until the seas subsided. The ship logged under 100 miles in the following 24 hours, made temporary repairs, and brought 4000 tons of cargo to Philadelphia before delaying its return sailing.
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Lord Downshire
Holland- America Line
Rotterdam
C. S. Browning
Browning
Downshire
Philadelphia
Too Many Baths Says Pierce Too Many Baths Says Pierce
Plymouth resident Tilden Pierce aged 100 celebrated at his home with visitors. He recalled his long life spent outdoors and recalled his view that baths twice or thrice a week are excessive, suggesting two or three baths a month suffice. He spoke of past whiskey usage and Johnny cake with pork fat.
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Tilden Pierce
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Mr. Pierce
Pierce
Phelps pleads for new trial and commutation
Silas N. Phelps in a Franklin County jail statement pleads for a new trial and commutation of his death sentence for the Monroe Bridge murder of Sheriff Emmett F. Haskins on June 12, 1911. He claims newly discovered evidence via his wife and asserts the shooting was accidental and not premeditated. governor and council considered a commutation petition, with a ruling due next Wednesday.
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Phelps
Haskins
Penman
Paper Mills
United States Supreme Court
Christmas Rush on at John F Callahan & Co
New England liquor demand surges for holidays as John F Callahan & Co at 154-162 Federal Street installs new machinery on the second floor to fill cork cap and label 36 quarts per minute. The firm emphasizes mail order service and sterilizes bottles while preparing ahead for the Christmas rush with a wide selection of wines gins brandies rums and cordials.
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John F. Callahan & CO
New England
Federal Street
Callahan Company
Callahan
Trustees' Thanks to Resigning Matron
At a meeting of the Franklin Square House trustees the resignation of Mrs. Alice Gray Teele, superintendent, was received and accepted to take effect February 1, 1912. The trustees praised her eight years of faithful service, noting her fidelity, loyalty, and contribution to the institution's prosperity.
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Franklin Square House
Alice Gray Teele
White Rock Water Bottle Ad Highlights Seasonal Relief
An advertisement promotes White Rock Water in new sterilized bottles. It claims quick relief from distress caused by over-indulgence in eating drinking or smoking and urges orders for Christmas and the Winter season.
Field Force Inoculation Recommended by Agriculture Dept
Washington December 21 typhoid inoculations to be introduced by official order among the field force of the Department of Agriculture. This is the first record of a civilian government department taking such a step. Inoculation is not compulsory but is recommended because of the ravages of typhoid in the force.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Rodman to Command the Connecticut in Atlantic Fleet
Captain H Rodman currently at Mare Island Cal has been assigned to command the battleship Connecticut flagship of the Atlantic fleet relieving Captain W I Rush who is ordered home. The change takes effect January 2.
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Washington
H. Rodman
Mare Island
Cal
Navy Yard
Connecticut
W. IR. Rush
Distressing case of hives cured by Cuticura remedies
A New York City resident recounts severe hives lasting days, resisted by doctor prescribed treatment until Cuticura ointment provided immediate relief and a week of use cured the condition. The notice promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a sample offer via Potts Drug & Chem. Corp.
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William Waterman
E. 100Th St
New York City
Pottes Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
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